Leaving Normal from Leaving Normal by Strange Talking Animals
FAWM 2025 song 22
written and recorded on February 26, 2025
I wanted to see how the Buchla Music Easel played with non-synths. I like it. There's two Easel parts. A riff and a lower drone.
Self aware- maybe. Identity struggles- definitely. Past, present, future.
'52 Tele (reissue), Rickenbacker 4003s, Buchla Music Easel, Tama Club Jam
Tracklist
| 15. | Leaving Normal | 5:40 |
Lyrics
Take these hands and make a sign
Take these eyes and disappear
My past has fallen, in a single day
It’s time to change the things I fear
Find a road that burns away
The different choices everyday
A turn ahead, and smoke behind me
Plays into the things I dread
My story is changing
My head is clear
Ideas are forming
I read the landscape
The world has changed into
A new frontier
Take these chains are rescue me
Take away my amnesty
My hopes expired in disarray
And chaos spreads like a disease
I found a road that fades away
It’s only there when I’m afraid
The distant shadows, and quiet voices
Prey upon my fraying nerves
My story is changing
I sense the fear
Nightmares are forming
I feed the landscape
My world is fading
Into something new
Take this life and make it mine
Take this life and make it shine
Credits
music and lyrics by Brad James Beske
License
All rights reserved.
Born in raised in Madison, WI. Transplanted to Brooklyn, Jamaica, and finally Springfield. Versed in chamber pop and rock, psychedelic and prog, and expanding musical horizons to experience electronic and ambient musics and experiment with modular and chaotic synthesis.Overfed with science fiction and fantasy and actual science. And stay-at-home dadness.